The UAW Is Going After One of the Big Three’s Key Money Makers
A United Auto Workers members picket near a Stellantis parts-distribution center.Mike Stewart/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The United Auto Workers Union is ramping up its unprecedented strike against the nation’s three major automakers and hitting one company where it hurts: pickup trucks. On…
Federal Agents Investigate Sugar Exporter Over Allegations of Forced Labor
Residents of a Central Romana batey in 2021.Pedro Farais-Nardi Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Americans pulling into the luxury Caribbean resort town of Juan Dolio could have easily passed as tourists. Dressed in jeans and tennis shoes, they set up at a hotel…
GM Contract Will Protect EV Workers, Paving Way for Green Transition
Members of the United Auto Workers rallied and then marched past General Motors headquarters in Michigsn in support of the UAW’s strike against Ford, Stellantis, and GM. Jim West/Zuma This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Workers at General Motors’ electric vehicle battery manufacturing facilities will be…
The Strike Is Working: The UAW Just Scored a Major Concession
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, second from right, talks with members picketing near a General Motors Assembly Plant in Delta Township, Michigan last month. Paul Sancya/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Friday afternoon, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain announced that, in response to…
This Is The Largest Health Care Strike in US History
Richard Vogel/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Wednesday, an estimated 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers across five states and Washington DC walked out in the largest health care workers strike in US history. After several days of negotiations over fair labor practices and higher…
For Disabled Workers, Discrimination Is Common—If You Even Get to Apply
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After becoming blind in his late 20s, designer and artist Marco Salsiccia had to learn to navigate the world through assistive technology—like a screen reader, software that speaks digital text and image descriptions aloud. Leveraging that…